REPORT: Satellite Imagery Reveals North Korea Is Building New Ballistic Missiles

US President Donald Trump gestures after a press conference following the historic US-North Korea summit in Singapore on June 12, 2018. - Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed their historic summit on June 12 as a breakthrough in relations between Cold War foes, but the agreement they produced was short on details about the key issue of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

United States intelligence agencies believe North Korea is assembling new intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the American mainland, according to explosive reporting by the Washington Post on Monday.

Sources familiar with the intelligence say the North Koreas are working on “at least one and possibly two liquid-fueled ICBMs at a large research facility in Sanumdong,” and that the missiles are a sign that Pyongyang’s pledge to “denuclearize” may have been nothing more than a ruse.

“The Sanumdong factory has produced two of North Korea’s ICBMs, including the powerful Hwasong-15, the first with a proven range that could allow it to strike the U.S. East Coast,” the Post’s report says.

The latest intelligence indicates Trump was likely used as a propaganda tool for the North Koreans, despite his tweets and affirmations of a positive relationship with Kim.

From WaPo:

Senior North Korean officials have discussed their intention to deceive Washington about the number of nuclear warheads and missiles they have, as well as the types and numbers of facilities, and to rebuff international inspectors, according to intelligence gathered by U.S. agencies.

“We see them going to work, just as before,” said one U.S. official.

U.S. President Donald Trump held a summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Singapore last month, where the two spoke in private and signed a non-binding letter of intent to pursue a future Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons. Since then, however, there has been little indication that Kim has ordered a scale down of his country’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

The president was quick to praise Kim and himself in the hours after the summit. Following his return home from the meeting, Trump tweeted: “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.”

Just landed – a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!

Earlier this month, the president tweeted he had had “many good conversations with North Korea” and that the “fake news” was “complaining” about what was an obvious lack of effort on the part of Kim’s regime to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. Trump also said that “we would now be at war with North Korea” if it weren’t for him.

Many good conversations with North Korea-it is going well! In the meantime, no Rocket Launches or Nuclear Testing in 8 months. All of Asia is thrilled. Only the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining. If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!

Dan Rather said “Kim Jong-Un was as convincing as Putin in his denials” about interfering in American elections, which Trump still has trouble accepting as truth.

I am shocked- shocked- to find that missile development is going on in Noth Korea! I guess Kim Jong-Un was as convincing as Putin in his denials (as opposed to U.S. intelligence). https://t.co/k6EXJYvPGp

North Korea is making more missiles. More proof Trump’s weak. No one takes his empty threats seriously. His North Korea summit obviously meant nothing. It was just more propaganda for a dictator. Just like his treason summit with Putin. He’s a terrifying joke and must resign.

If Trump got played by a third-rate dictator with such ease, maybe it would be a good idea to legislate a recording requirement for his convos with foreign leaders? Starting with the former head of the KGB-I’m sure Trump had the upper-hand in that one 😳 https://t.co/L8AqoTtyCG

The North Korea matter should remind you once again that Donald Trump is completely naive when it comes to the blandishments, seductions, foot massages, sloe-eyed glances, perfumed handkerchiefs, flirtatious billets- doux, and long moonlit walks on the beach with dictators.

Dealmaker-in-Chief boasted too soon that North Korea is not messing with their old missiles anymore. Rather they are building new and better missiles. So Rocket Man did not go away for a photo op with Orange Man. Nope. Trump has simply made matters worse! https://t.co/BNJjU0nLNqpic.twitter.com/eYgpPkVC4X

On Monday, before the Post story broke, Vice President Mike Pence said Trump had “secured a commitment” from North Korea.

Pence was referring to fallen American servicemembers whose remains are still in North Korea more than six decades after the Korean War. “We’ll see North Korea begin to follow through on the promise they made to President Trump,” Pence tweeted.

While @POTUS Trump was negotiating an issue as significant as denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, he had our fallen heroes on his heart. And he secured a commitment. In Hawaii, we’ll see North Korea begin to follow through on the promise they made to President Trump. pic.twitter.com/pvnP3taVEj